Currently, a job search on LinkedIn with the word “ambiguity” in the search bar returns about 50k results: way less than happy words like “fun” or “exciting”, which each return over 300k results. However, my experience shows that high-skilled roles have more of the former than either of the latter. Surely, professional jobs in the 21st century are disturbingly vacuous, and those who acknowledge this are gaslit or even terminated.
Indeed, the cause of how and why humanity has backed itself onto such an awkward, dysfunctional economic circumstance can be debated, as I’ve done in previous posts. In short, CEOs need a cover for the excess capital they generate and consume most of. Additionally, corporate/professional spaces are good at enforcing class/racial segregation, given that access to them is contingent on white-specific achievements (e.g., degrees, robust social networks, Eurocentric names and other attributes). Thus, what has ensued is, rather than instituting a universal basic income, the emperors pay workers to compliment their invisible clothes, metaphorically speaking.
In fact, I’m currently completing an IT co-op and, although there’ve been moments of genuine fun and, dare I say, pride, they are brief. Truly, I feel more like a glorified mailman than a programmer at times, given much of my tasks involve spamming co-workers. Correspondingly, there’s also virtual meetings, which range from informative to merely a chance for everyone to practice their best shit-eating grin and head-nodding cadence.
Of course, participating in such a pretense may doable for a few months. But if this what I have to look forward to in a career, then my financial stability post-college maybe very much in question. For I believe acting busy is more stressful than actually being busy.
Though, like all my posts, the goal isn’t to persuade the powerful to embrace an economic model that supports raw, intellectual pursuit rather than devoting forty hours per week to a hollow cause. Given the charade benefits them. Rather, I wanted to illustrate how science & innovation is taking a backseat enforcing America's caste system: a truth any creative should heed.
With that said, thanks for reading and stay
pissed.
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